The accompaniment tracks in the following 2 MIDI music files were generated by functional scaffolding for musical composition (FSMC) and discussed in the SMC 2011 publication, Generating Musical Accompaniment through Functional Scaffolding.

Nancy Whiskey (depicted in figure 3a):

Bad Girl's Lament (depicted in figure 3b):

Additional Scarborough Fair Sample 1 (Not in Article)

Additional Scarborough Fair Sample 2 (Not in Article)


Special thanks to Barry Taylor for granting special permission to utilize his own MIDI productions of folk music in this work. Barry Taylor orginally sequenced Nancy Whiskey and Bad Girl's Lament without accompaniment.

The survey questions and MIDIs for this paper are shown here.

The accompaniment tracks in the following 4 MIDI music files were generated by functional scaffolding for musical composition (FSMC) and discussed in the GECCO 2011 publication, Interactively Evolving Harmonies through Functional Scaffolding.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-1002507. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation

Bad Girl's Lament (depicted in figure 4):

Scarborough Fair dissonance example (depicted in figure 5):

Additional Scarborough Fair Sample 1 (Not in Article)

Additional Scarborough Fair Sample 2 (Not in Article)


Special thanks to Barry Taylor for granting special permission to utilize his own MIDI productions of folk music in this work. Barry Taylor orginally sequenced both Bad Girl's Lament and Scarborough Fair without accompaniment.

The survey questions and MIDIs for this paper are shown here.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1002507. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.